Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-27
TREASURER'S BOMBS.
lYRcHBuRes rREAsuRRR MAKES IT
LIVELY FOR couPox.rgNpERERs.
Many Levies, and Much Litigation tx
peeted- "A Change Of Route
Harrow Escape.
1corrernonde nce Of ,hn Richmond pispN,ch. l

Noncompliance OF the Richmond Dispaichl
LyNCHBURe, January Is, 1887.
The city treasurer is quite busy in
making levies for State taxes where
coupons have heretofore been offered
and refused. That officer informed
your correspondent yesterday that out
of large number of levies made only
two had paid their taxes in money, and
that under protest, rather than undergo
the annoyance and expense attending a
sale. He further informed me that he
proposes to push the matter until the
last one Of the dclinquents shall have
been levied ON. The frequency and
emarkable promptitude with. which the
treasurer's notices of sales are torn down
from the public places in which they
are posted. in conformity with the law,
would indicate that some people do not
covet the glory of being thus posted at
thc public market-house. For this rea-
son, and for the additional one that the
emily officer who AZ yet has posses
mon of the list of coupon-tenders
feels a natural delicacy in furnish
ing the names to the press, 1t is difficult
VI say who al Of them are. but az soon
Is they get into the Corporation Court
there will no longer he any secrecy at
taching to the subject. Many Of the
parties upon whom levy has been
made, am reliably informed, will seek
~ obtain injunctions to restrain the sale
Of their property, though the attorney
for the Commonwealth in this city ex-
presses his very decided conviction that
The effort will be futile. Certain it is
that the large number who are doing
business here without license. after a
fruitless tender of coupons, are very
much exercised over the Jones decision
in the Court of Appeals, and are greatly
discouraged in their efforts to further
embarrass the State. We are likely to
have a lively time, at least among the
lawyers, at the February term of the
Corporation Court, when, rs if to add
interest 10 the occasion, information
will be fled before the grand jury IN
several cases of alleged barratry.
The change of route through the city
Of the Richmond and Allegheny rail
road is much larger undertaking than
the general public suppose it to be. A
visit to the work cannot fail to impress
the spectator with the magnitude and
probable cost of the job. There are
two abutments and two piers being
built in Blackwater creek-immediatei
in rear of where the Piedmont House
once stood-Of massive proportions and
imposing appearance. The stone was
taken from what was known as Joshua
Creek dana work of the old canal
company-and was hewn i'll large
dressed blocks. One of the abutments
is completed, and the other nearly 50.
The piers appear to be about two thirds
completed, When finished the Job
will be most creditable one to the
company. as well as those engaged III
it, and will be decided improvement
Oh the present disadvantageous me-
thod of ingress and egress to and from
the city. 1t will doubtless be several
weeks before the trains of the compa-
ny will be able to pass over it.
The City Council, at special meet
ing held yesterday, abolished the con
tract system, as applied to city work.
j. r. Coffey, an employee of the
Lynchburg Refractory, narrowly es-
capped being killed by a freight train
on the Richmond and Allegheny track,
near Hurts mill, yesterday. The rear
ear touched him as he jumped from the
track. The train approached him stern
foremost and noiselessly.
The officials pf the Richmond and
Allegheny railroad arrived here i'll a
special car Yesterday. Rex.